When the living sleep and the dead awake etc, etc, Huddersfield

Sir William Orpen, Self-portrait, 1906

The pen & ink with watercolor sketch was part of a letter sent by the Irish artist to his American patron + mistress, Florence Evelyn St. George. Orpen wrote almost daily to St. George - the letters always illustrated + sometimes composed of nothing but drawings. Their daughter Vivien gave over 350 illustrated letters by Orpen, dating between 1906 + 1929, to the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin.

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